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Wonderview, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in St. Vincent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72063. It lies near Bull Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Solgohachia quadrangle.

Wonderview within Conway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

48 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Wonderview between 1999 and 2020, burning about 560 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use224 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wonderview: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Conway County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wonderview in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013Thunderstorm WindWonderview$3,000The roof was blown off a barn.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWonderview$2,000A couple of trees were blown down.
April 2017Heavy RainWonderview-The 24 hour total rainfall was 2.86.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWonderview-Power lines were down.

Every storm recorded in Conway County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lone Grove1.7 miles17
Macedonia1.7 miles16
Saint Vincent1.8 miles17
Lanty2.4 miles17
McClaren2.7 miles17
Old Hickory3.9 miles16
Blick4.1 miles16
Wesley Chapel4.1 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122565441The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58907. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.